Working Like a Dog
Written by Gena K. Gorrell
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2009
Price: $16.95
Winner of The 2003 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Included on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List
Since the first hungry wolf bravely approached an ancient cooking fire and was rewarded with a scrap of meat, our lives and the lives of dogs have been interwoven. Dogs have worked for us as...
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Good Dog
Written by Maya Gottfried
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $6.99
In this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in 16 enchanting poems. It’s a doggie delight!
These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will...
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Barry: The Bravest Saint Bernard
Written by Lynn Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $3.99
Illus. in full color. This is the true-life story of Barry, a remarkable Saint Bernard who gained worldwide fame for rescuing more than 40 people trapped under avalanches.
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Sesame Subjects: My First Book About Dogs
Written by Kama Einhorn
Illustrated by Joe Mathieu
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2006
Price: $7.99
Arf, arf! What little kid doesn’t want to know more about dogs? Professor Grover and Elmo are here to teach them all about breeds, dog care, what working dogs do, and much more. Barkley, the big Sesame Street dog, appears as a special guest!
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If I Had a Dog
Written by Carolyn Jackson
Illustrated by France Brassard
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2006
Price: $16.95
Six-year-old Maxine is dog crazy. She draws dogs, she has dogs on her T-shirts, she even drags home neighbors’ dogs in the hopes that her parents will let them stay. On a walk to the park with her big brother, Hugh, Maxine stops every time she sees a dog, hoping for...
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Good Dog
Written by Maya Gottfried
Illustrated by Robert Rahway Zakanitch
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $15.95
In this heart-stealing picture book, fine artist Robert Rahway Zakanitch gives us 16 masterful, soulful, impossibly expressive portraits of dogs, and Maya Gottfried wonderfully captures their voices and inner personalities in 16 enchanting poems. It’s a doggie delight!
These dogs beg to be patted, tickled, scratched, and ruffled. Which one will...
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Busy Doggies
Written by John Schindel
Photographed by Beverly Sparks
Format: Board, 20 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $6.99
It'¬?s time to woof it up! Toddlers learn basic action words as they gnaw, paw, tug, and hug along with these perennially active pooches.Spotlights vivid full-color photographs of a variety of breeds.
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Working Like a Dog
Written by Gena K. Gorrell
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $16.95
Winner of The 2003 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Included on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List
Since the first hungry wolf bravely approached an ancient cooking fire and was rewarded with a scrap of meat, our lives and the lives of dogs have been interwoven. Dogs have worked for us as...
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Balto and the Great Race
Written by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: December 21, 1999
Price: $3.99
Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog—until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish—and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled, but can the dogs deliver it...
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